Animated cinema

Twenty-four drawings for one second on screen: animation is first of all a matter of patience and workshop. Disney industrialised the process in 1937 with the first feature in colour, more than a million drawings for Snow White. The other paths remained artisanal: Trnka animated wooden puppets in Czechoslovakia, McLaren scratched the film frame by frame in Canada, Takahata told of two starving children in bombed Japan, Miyazaki fitted into a forest film the question of what men owe to the living world.

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• CinemaSnow White and the Seven DwarfsWilliam Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce and Ben Sharpsteen · 1937The studio, which until then had made only short films, devoted three years and more than seven hundred artists to this first American animated feature film, in colour and with sound.Cinema
• CinemaNeighboursNorman McLaren · 1952Two peaceful neighbours quarrel over a flower that has grown between their plots, and the quarrel turns bitter.Cinema
• CinemaA Midsummer Night's DreamSen noci svatojánskéJiří Trnka · 1959Shakespeare's comedy entrusted to animated puppets and music.Cinema
• CinemaGrave of the Fireflies火垂るの墓Isao Takahata · 19881988 animated film drawn from a postwar story, about a brother and sister left to fend for themselves in 1945.Cinema
• CinemaPrincess Mononokeもののけ姫Hayao Miyazaki · 1997A 1997 animated film in which a young man marked by a curse stands between a city of ironworkers and the forest it is felling.Cinema